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Nugent (Bobsgrove/Farren Connell)
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According to Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland (1904) this family is descended from the 12th Baron Delvin and was settled at Enagh (borders Bobsgrove) in county Cavan in the mid-17th century. Christopher Edmond John Nugent (1777-1853) of Bobsgrove and his wife Sophia Rathborne had six sons. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation the representatives of Christopher Nugent held six townlands in the parish of Kilbride while his third son the Reverend Edmond Nugent, vicar of Denn, held land in the parish of Denn and his grandson Edmond held land in the parish of Castlerahan. Christopher Nugent’s eventual male successor was his youngest son, Major General St George Mervyn Nugent of Farren Connell, who owned 1,832 acres in county Cavan in 1876. He died in 1884 and was succeeded by his son Major Oliver Stewart Wood Nugent.
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